Television
Throughout her career, Marian Anderson let her singing--not overt sociopolitical stances nor self-promotion--be the issue.
May 6, 1991
Entertainment & Arts
Profile: She broke many color barriers, including at the Metropolitan Opera in 1954. This year, the centenary of her birth, her musical heirs saluted her.
March 23, 1997
Music
I was 15 years old and attended my first professional concert in Stockton.
April 17, 1993
More than 2,000 people gathered at the Lincoln Memorial on Sunday for a concert honoring the 70th anniversary of contralto Marian Anderson’s historic performance there in 1939.
April 13, 2009
Hometown Heroine: Opera star Marian Anderson headed back to her native Philadelphia to attend Sunday’s dedication of St.
Jan. 21, 1991
There have been few great singers in history less inclined by nature to relish being the center of controversy than was Marian Anderson.
April 10, 1993
Singer’s Show About Marian Anderson Reveals Conviction to Overcome Racism
May 30, 2001
If the spirit of the theater could be incarnated, it would have looked and sounded very much like Marian Seldes, the Tony Award-winning actress who died Monday after an extended illness.
Oct. 7, 2014
Marian Anderson, whose richly textured contralto voice was for years muted because of the color of her skin but who lived long enough to see her artistry acclaimed in the concert halls of the world, died Thursday.
April 9, 1993
Super Grammys: Bob Dylan, John Lennon, country singer Kitty Wells and classical singer Marian Anderson are the winners of the Lifetime Achievement Awards to be presented at the 33rd Annual Grammy Awards on Feb. 20.
Jan. 4, 1991